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Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
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Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere
to get American citizens to obey
the orders of constituted courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.
That must be maintained, for it is
the only safeguard of our liberties.
- Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
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